Enactivist Interventions is an interdisciplinary work that explores
how theories of embodied cognition illuminate many aspects of the
mind, including intentionality, representation, the affect,
perception, action and free will, higher-order cognition, and
intersubjectivity. Gallagher argues for a rethinking of the concept of
mind, drawing on pragmatism, phenomenology and cognitive science.
Enactivism is presented as a philosophy of nature that has significant
methodological and theoretical implications for the scientific
investigation of the mind. Gallagher argues that, like the basic
phenomena of perception and action, sophisticated cognitive phenomena
like reflection, imagining, and mathematical reasoning are best
explained in terms of an affordance-based skilled coping. He offers an
account of the continuity that runs between basic action, affectivity,
and a rationality that in every case remains embodied. Gallagher's
analysis also addresses recent predictive models of brain function and
outlines an alternative, enactivist interpretation that emphasizes the
close coupling of brain, body and environment rather than a strong
boundary that isolates the brain in its internal processes. The
extensive relational dynamics that integrates the brain with the
extra-neural body opens into an environment that is physical, social
and cultural and that recycles back into the enactive process.
Cognitive processes are in-the-world rather than in-the-head; they are
situated in affordance spaces defined across evolutionary,
developmental and individual histories, and are constrained by
affective processes and normative dimensions of social and cultural
practices.
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Rethinking the Mind
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ISBN
9780192513083
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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